Edinburgh journal of natural history Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 The above figure is taken from a plate in the *'Exotica' of Clusius, published in IbOa. He says it was copied from a rough sketch in the journal of a Dutch voyager, who had seen the bird in the Moluccas, in the year 1598, Clusius says, that he had himself seen only a leg of the Dodo, in the house of Peter Pauw, a professor of me- dicine at Leyden, which was brought from Mam-itius. Clusius calls this bird ^^ Cal- lus pcn-r/rinus' and mentions that

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Edinburgh journal of natural history Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences edinburghjournal01macg Year: 1835 The above figure is taken from a plate in the *'Exotica' of Clusius, published in IbOa. He says it was copied from a rough sketch in the journal of a Dutch voyager, who had seen the bird in the Moluccas, in the year 1598, Clusius says, that he had himself seen only a leg of the Dodo, in the house of Peter Pauw, a professor of me- dicine at Leyden, which was brought from Mam-itius. Clusius calls this bird ^^ Cal- lus pcn-r/rinus' and mentions that the Dutch sailors called it Walgh- Vogel, ^^ Nauseam 2ijove?is avis.' ^y^- V/e i:opy the above from the travels of Herbert in Africa, Asia, and other places, published in 1634. It differs from the former iu the shape of tlie bill, but possesses dl the other characters sufficiently marked.

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